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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 13, 2012
True Believer

A quirky Gulf Coast tourist attraction has come to a soggy intersection. Its owners — two local governments — have some big decisions to make.

  • Industries
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 15, 2022
Hospital to pay $5.5M to settle improper Medicaid payments case

Case, for which hospital officials attribute to difference of interpretation of Medicaid rules, dates back to 2014 and 2015.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Steven Benna |
  • February 5, 2016
Corporate report

Job recruitment firm names new GM; Bank expands into Tampa, names leadership team; County promotes building official; Architecture firm names new partners; Community management company hires regional VP

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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • October 12, 2023
Chelly Conley, 32

KnowBe4's director was hired to install a diversity and inclusion program.

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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • July 7, 2022
At capacity: Industry struggles with a counterintuitive 'COVID bump' challenge

Furniture retailers are confronting an unexpected, pandemic-driven business oddity: an oversupply of product.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • October 7, 2005
Inside Job

An alleged $1 million-plus employee theft at Jabil Circuit Inc. comes at an interesting time for thepublicly traded St. Petersburg electronics maker.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • January 5, 2018
Word for 2018: '20-Great-teen!

Despite the World of Trump, we can continue to turn the tide with our own decorum and the push for economic freedom.

  • Opinion
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • September 5, 2014
Why not to expand Medicaid

Nary a day goes by without some editorial writer haranguing Florida's governor and Republican-controlled Legislature for not taking federal tax dollars to expand Florida's Medicaid program.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 29, 2022
Flight cancellations, airport updates from Hurricane Ian at TPA, PIE, SRQ, RSW, PGD

Forecast to approach west central Florida on Wednesday, Hurricane Ian is impacting travel across the region.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 15, 2008
Corporate Report

Blinkx offers to buy MIVA at $1.20 a shareChico's July reportshows 7% sales dipOmniReliant plans to buyInternet jeweler AbaziasFox European competitorto sell XpressO oscillatorsEtc... Alico Inc. addsnew quarterly dividendStarwood Land Venturepartners with D.C. developerPGT sets new dividend forright to buy more stockBrown & Brownissuing 7-cent dividendHyde Park Capital Advisorshelps guide Zickgraf saleRealtor Sellstate launchesnew branding campaignSource Interlink, XMrev-up consumer promoMoneyShow.com inkscontent-sharing dealProgress Energy Floridafiles nuclear plant applicationSolar energy project planned for Lowery Zoo

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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • March 10, 2021
Pair of shopping centers seeks to fill empty grocery stores

Landlords also look toward Amazon-proof stores.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • September 28, 2018
Dig it: Firm builds on a solid foundation

Universal Engineering Sciences' Tampa, Florida, office has been the main driver of the Orlando-headquartered geo-tech company's growth.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 3, 2024
Foodie-focused company sells Lee County offices for $2.4M

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Lakewood Ranch warehouse unit sells for $1.2 million, works starts on the former St. Pete police HQ site, and a Cuban bakery is opening in Ave Maria.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 7, 2011
Jackson Lab still has many hurdles ahead

Jackson Lab may have selected Sarasota County for its 120,000-square-foot biomedical research facility, but that's just one of several steps to making it a reality.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 21, 2012
Wear shorts, stay for a long time

Sarasota tourism officials responded to a pair of thumping setbacks suffered over the past year with a new, and aggressive, attack plan.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 18, 2011
Subsidies come into focus in Bradenton

A brouhaha has broken out in downtown Bradenton over potential incentives given to businesses to move into the region.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 16, 2021
Chamber official combats low rate of new business startups

Frank Knapp looks to reform the SBA — and arm it with more capital.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 17, 2020
Manufacturer unveils massive new headquarters

Madico Inc., a maker of window films and a wholly owned subsidiary of Phoenix-based Lintec USA, on Feb. 13 officially opened its new, 247,000-square-foot headquarters and manufacturing facility located at 9251 Belcher Road N., Pinellas Park, Florida.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 29, 2017
Sarasota code update progressing

The city of Sarasota's overhaul of its zoning code is on track to be completed by next summer, the official overseeing the effort says.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 2, 2018
What's in a name?

For St. Petersburg preservationists, everything.

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